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2021 Baseball GAME NOTES Athletic Media Relations | 111 Playforth Place, AAC Room 156 |Contact 4Matt Schabert ([email protected]) 2021 Ohio Valley Conference Baseball Championship GAMEs 43-45 May 27-29, 2021 • The Ballpark at Jackson • Jackson, Tenn. No. 3 Morehead State Eagles (24-21; 13-11 OVC) The Field (2021 Record) TV4ESPN+ • Radio4Eagle Sports Network Last Game4W, 9-6 vs. Belmont (5/22) No. 1 Southeast Missouri (27-19; 17-10 OVC) Live Stats4MSUEagles.com • Live Audio4MSUEagles.com Head Coach4Mik Aoki (29-31, 2nd season) No. 2 Murray State (30-23; 17-12 OVC) Twitter4@MSUEagles & @MSUEaglesBsball Record at OVC Tournament40-0 No. 4 Austin Peay (22-31; 16-14 OVC) 2021 SCHEDULE LEADING OFF DATE OPPONENT TIME (ET)|RESULT Feb. 19 at Charlotte L, 12-4 ◊ Entering the 2021 Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, Morehead State owns a 5-2 record Feb. 20 at Charlotte L, 18-3 Feb. 20 at Davidson L, 14-8 against the other three teams in the field, taking series from No. 2 Murray State three games Feb. 21 at Charlotte L, 4-2 to one and No. 4 Austin Peay two games to one. Morehead State and No. 1 Southeast Feb. 24 Bellarmine Cancelled Missouri did not meet this season due to a Covid-19 cancellation. Feb. 26 at Ohio L, 6-0 [7] Feb. 26 at Ohio W, 3-1 [11] ◊ Morehead State’s 2021 OVC Tournament appearance marks the 34th OVC postseason Feb. 28 Ohio Postponed appearance in program history and the 25th time that appearance has come in the OVC Feb. 28 Ohio Cancelled March 2 at (1) Louisville W, 5-2 Tournament (1979-pres.). Overall, the Eagles are making their seventh consecutive OVC March 5 at Marshall L, 3-1 Tournament appearance—the longest stretch in program history—(no OVC Tournament March 6 Marshall W, 13-10 held in 2020 due to the Covid-19 public health threat). Morehead State owns a 46-53 OVC March 7 at Marshall W, 6-2 postseason record (35-42 in the OVC Tournament). March 9 Ohio W, 12-9 March 12 Eastern Kentucky [!] W, 5-2 ◊ After hitting .397 during the regular season with 11 home runs and 42 runs batted in, first March 13 Eastern Kentucky [!] W, 14-5 March 13 Eastern Kentucky [!] L, 11-0 [7] baseman Jackson Feltner earned the program’s first-ever Freshman of the Year honor (2000- March 16 at West Virginia L, 7-1 pres.). Earning the honor, he was one of two players in the OVC to rank top five in all three March 17 at West Virginia L, 4-2 slash line categories, joined by 2021 OVC Player of the Year Trey Sweeney. March 20 at Norfolk State W, 5-3 [8] March 20 at Norfolk State W, 5-1 [7] ◊ In addition to his Freshman of the Year honor, Feltner garnered a spot on the OVC’s All- March 21 at Norfolk State W, 10-2 [7] Freshman Team while centerfielder Ryley Preece and right-handed pitcher Luke Helton also March 21 at Norfolk State L, 4-2 [7] March 26 at UT Martin [!] Cancelled garnered a spot on the 14-player team. Morehead State’s three honorees were the most of March 26 at UT Martin [!] Cancelled any OVC program and the program’s most since garnering four selections following the 2016 March 27 at UT Martin [!] Cancelled season. April 2 SIUE [!] W, 13-10 April 3 SIUE [!] L, 12-8 April 3 SIUE [!] W, 13-8 April 6 at Dayton W, 10-7 April 8 at Austin Peay [!] L, 13-4 April 9 at Austin Peay [!] W, 14-9 April 9 at Austin Peay [!] W, 12-1 [7] April 16 Eastern Illinois [!] W, 7-4 April 16 Eastern Illinois [!] W, 11-9 Potential Starting Lineup* April 17 Eastern Illinois [!] L, 8-6 # Name B/T AVG HR RBI RUNS BB SB April 18 Eastern Illinois W, 14-4 [7] C 44 Jack Gardner R/R .282 12 54 31 23 1-1 April 20 at Eastern Kentucky L, 13-4 1B 30 Jackson Feltner R/R .397 11 42 28 17 0-1 April 24 at Jacksonville State [!] W, 3-0 April 24 at Jacksonville State [!] L, 9-5 2B 9 Bryce Hensor R/R .358 4 27 52 27 10-12 April 25 at Jacksonville State [!] W, 6-3 SS 16 Colton Becker R/R .207 4 20 24 16 3-3 April 30 Murray State [!] W, 17-3 3B 12 Stephen Hill R/R .292 3 33 33 26 1-3 May 1 Murray State [!] W, 5-3 LF 23 Jacob Ferry L/R .250 7 17 17 14 3-5 May 1 Murray State [!] L, 13-3 [7] CF 4 Ryley Preece S/R .324 5 21 30 18 4-7 May 2 Murray State W, 11-6 RF 18 Ryan Layne L/R .266 5 19 29 18 2-3 May 7 at Tennessee Tech [!] L, 3-2 DH 34 Alex Jacobs L/R .276 2 7 13 7 2-6 May 8 at Tennessee Tech [!] L, 4-3 May 8 at Tennessee Tech [!] L, 8-7 May 11 at Kentucky Cancelled POtential Starting Pitchers May 14 Southeast Missouri [!] Cancelled # Name ERA W-L APP GS IP BB SO May 14 Southeast Missouri [!] Cancelled 13 Jason Goe 4.32 3-5 13 12 75.0 16 75 May 15 Southeast Missouri [!] Cancelled 1 Luke Helton 4.75 3-2 12 12 55.0 19 55 May 21 at Belmont [!] L, 4-3 25 John Sherman 8.17 1-1 12 8 36.1 26 24 May 22 at Belmont [!] L, 6-5 22 Matt Bettio 7.71 2-2 13 6 28.0 15 26 May 22 at Belmont [!] W, 9-6 May 27 vs. No. 2 Murray State 7:00 p.m. 41 Will Lozinak 10.24 0-2 5 5 9.2 7 5 May 28 vs. No. 1 Southeast Missouri/No. 4 Austin Peay TBD May 28 OVC Tournament Semifinal TBD Potential Bullpen Arms May 29 OVC Tournament Championship Game TBD # Name ERA W-L APP GS IP BB SO 6 Alex Kafka 8.04 1-0 12 0 15.2 18 9 Bold indicates home game 10 Joe Rotkis 4.58 2-0 12 0 19.2 7 20 [!] = Ohio Valley Conference Game 17 Donovan Baldocchi 7.36 0-0 4 1 3.2 1 2 26 John Bakke 4.25 1-2 26 0 42.1 24 49 27 Cory Conway 3.80 8-3 20 0 42.2 22 52 29 Grant Herron 8.76 1-2 17 0 24.2 20 36 36 Jake Ziegelmeyer 4.50 0-1 4 1 4.0 3 1 * Based on Previous Weekend’s Lineups 2021 Baseball GAME NOTES Athletic Media Relations | 111 Playforth Place, AAC Room 156 |Contact 4Matt Schabert ([email protected]) QUICK FACTS ◊ Hitting .397 on the year, Feltner ranks 22nd in the NCAA in batting average and second in the OVC in the category. He sits just three points shy of the conference’s leader in batting Location Morehead, Ky. average, Southeast Missouri’s Tyler Wilber (.400), while also ranking second among NCAA true Founded 1887 freshman behind just Air Force’s Paul Skenes (.418). Enrollment 10,351 Nickname Eagles ◊ After hitting a pair of home runs in Morehead State’s series at Tennessee Tech, Feltner became Colors Blue (286), Gold (116) the fifth freshman in program history to hit double-digit homers in a season. He’s the first to Affiliation NCAA Division I hit 10-plus homers as a freshman since Taylor Davis in 2009 and currently ranks tied for fourth Conference Ohio Valley (OVC) in program history in freshman season homers. Stadium (Capacity) Allen Field (1,000) President Dr. Jay Morgan ◊ Picking up a hit in each game of last weekend’s series at Belmont, Feltner improved his confer- Director of Athletics Jaime Gordon ence-leading hitting and reached base streaks to 26 and 35 games respectively. At 26 games, First Season of Baseball 1927 his hitting streak marks the second-longest hitting streak in program history (records limited), All-Time Record 1557-1475-10 behind only Glenn Jones 31 game hitting streak spanning the 1980 and 1981 seasons. Felt- OVC Regular Season Titles 6 (1957, 1969, 1973, 1977, ner’s 35 game reached base streak ranks seventh-longest in program history (records limited). 1979, 1983) OVC East Division Titles 8 (1963, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1973, ◊ Scoring three times last weekend at Belmont, second baseman Bryce Hensor improved his 1974, 1976, 1977) team-leading runs scored total to 52, ranking second in the OVC and 36th in the NCAA in the OVC North Division Titles 2 (1983, 1985) category. Averaging 1.16 runs scored per game, he leads the OVC in runs scored per game OVC Tournament Titles 4 (1983, 1993, 2015, 2018) to rank 23rd in the NCAA. On the season, Hensor has scored a run in 33 games, including a NCAA Appearances 4 (1977, 1983, 2015, 2018) streak of 11 straight games from April 2 to April 18. NCAA Tournament Record 2-8 2020 Record 5-10 ◊ With 16 doubles this season, third baseman Stephen Hill ranks fifth in the OVC in the category 2020 OVC Record 0-3 while his average of .37 doubles per contest leads the OVC. On the year, he’s collected four of his five career two-double games, including three two-double games over his last nine games. WATCH AND LISTEN TO THE EAGLES ◊ Collecting his ninth sacrifice of the season in Morehead State’s season finale at Belmont, 4Select games can be heard live on the Eagle Sports Preece tied for the sixth most sacrifice bunts in a single season in program history with his Radio Network with Ryan Frye on play-by-play.